willow-pattern

1. 1.

   chinaware decorated with a blue Chinese design on a white background depicting a willow tree and often a river

   Synonymswillowware

   Broaderchinaware

Questions about willow-pattern

What does willow-pattern mean?

willow-pattern means "chinaware decorated with a blue Chinese design on a white background depicting a willow tree and often a river".

How many syllables are in willow-pattern?

willow-pattern has 4 syllables: wil-low--pat-tern. The stress falls on "low-".

What is another word for willow-pattern?

Close synonyms include willowware. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is willow-pattern a common word?

willow-pattern is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.